/LC.GIF&client=easterncarolinaedu)
The sublime in modern philosophy : aesthetics, ethics, and nature / Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh.
| Author/creator | Brady, Emily |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xi, 227 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The eighteenth-century sublime -- The Kantian sublime I : Pre-critical and critical work -- The Kantian sublime II : Nature and Morality -- The Romantic sublime -- Art and the Sublime -- Tragedy and the sublime -- The sublime, terrible beauty, and ugliness -- The environmental sublime. |
| Abstract | In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetic and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, the sublime, Brady argues, is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world."--Book Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012043750 |
| ISBN | 9780521194143 (Hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521194148 (Hardback) |
| Standard identifier# | 40022687264 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BH301 .S7 B73 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |